LILY AS AN ARTIST/OBJET D’ART

Question 1

I.1

Answer 1

Her vivid head, relieved against the dull tints of the crowd

Question 2

I.12 (1st)

Answer 2

revealed the touch of poetry in her beauty … shown her artistic intelligence

Question 3

I.6

Answer 3

You are an artist and I happen to be the bit of colour you are using today.

Question 4

I.12 (2nd)

Answer 4

Its expression was now so vivid that for the first time he seemed to see before him the real Lily Bart

Question 5

I.8

Answer 5

[Lily desires] the whole form [of her life to be] a harmonious setting to her own jewel-like rareness

Question 6

I.10

Answer 6

always inspirited by the prospect of showing her beauty in public … Ah, it was good … to feel one’s self lifted to a height apart by that incommunicable grace which is the bodily counterpart of genius!